Design flow for HW / SW acceleration transparency in the thumbpod secure embedded system

David Hwang, Bo-Cheng Lai, Patrick Schaumont, Kazuo Sakiyama, Yi Fan, Shenglin Yang, Alireza Hodjat, Ingrid Verbauwhede
2003 Proceedings of the 40th conference on Design automation - DAC '03  
This paper describes a case study and design flow of a secure embedded system called ThumbPod, which uses cryptographic and biometric signal processing acceleration. It presents the concept of HW/SW acceleration transparency, a systematic method to accelerate Java functions in both software and hardware. An example of acceleration transparency for a Rijndael encryption function is presented. The embedded prototype hardware platform is also described. Acceleration transparency yields software and hardware performance gains of 333X.
doi:10.1145/775832.775850 dblp:conf/dac/HwangLSSFYHV03 fatcat:hwtvgrcx2begfj6vqsskupcvgq